Wikinews and Blogs: Open Chat, February 5, 22:00 UTC

(We're sending this to a few bloggers directly - apologies if you
receive it twice.)

List,

in December 2004, the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates the Wikipedia
encyclopedia, launched the Wikinews project, a beta foray into citizen
journalism. Anyone is invited to contribute articles to Wikinews, or to
improve existing ones. Unlike stories on activist websites like
Indymedia, Wikinews articles have to be written from a neutral point of
view, and factual claims must be sourced. The English edition can be
found at:

http://en.wikinews.org/

We are inviting notable bloggers to participate in an online chat on
citizen journalism and the interaction between bloggers and the Wikinews
project. There will be an introduction to the Wikinews project and an
open discussion with lots of room for questions. We will also try to
highlight ways in which bloggers can get content from Wikinews, as well
as contribute content. The event will take place on Internet Relay Chat.
You can find out more about IRC here:

http://www.mirc.co.uk/irc.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat

The "Wikinews and Blogs" chat will take place on Saturday, February 5,
2005, 22:00 UTC in the #wikinews channel on irc.freenode.net. You can
learn more about the event at

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews_Chat

We would be very pleased should you decide to participate in this event.
Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best regards,

Erik M=F6ller


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